Improvement in knitted fabric



itri tats# gatwt @fitta GEORGE JELLEY, OF HOXB-URIASSIGNOR TO CHARLES W. GRIFFITHS, OF

' BOSTON, MASSAGEUSETTS. l

Leiters Patent No. 80,183, dated July 21,1368.

IMPROVEMENT IN KNITTED l'ABRIC.`

To ALL PERSONS To wHoM THESE PRESENTS MAY COME:

t Be it known that I, GEURGE JELLEY, of'Roxhury,-iu the county of Norfolk, land State of Massachusetts, do hereby declare that I have invented a new orfimproved Knit Fabric; and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification, and represented'in the accompanying drawings, of which Figure 1 exhibits a front view, and y Y A i Figure 2 a. rear view of apiece of such fabric us it appears when stretched both widthwise and lengthwise.- These figures exhibitlthe method of interlooping the threads or yarns to form the fabric.

Figure 8 is a sectional view of mechanism as used` in the making of such fabric.

For instance, if we have a' series of yarns, a, b, e, d, &o., of which one, for instance, is colored red, and the rest blue, and we have another series, e e e,`&c., of white yarns, they are to be interlooped in the man,- ner' as shown in the drawings, the same serving to represent loops of the whiteyarns on the face of the fabric, as arranged in straight parallel'lines on the ground or main knitting, composed of the blue and red yarns.

i Each of the ground-yarns is run in a zigzag across three others of such ground-yarns'. At each angle of the zigzag there is a loop in the yarn. One of lthe loops, at one angle, receives two loops, one of which is from one of the yarns e, and the other from one of the'ground-yarns. The other loop, or that at thenext angle,

lies against a loop of white yarn, .and receives a ground-yarn; and a loopof another ground-yarn, the whole being as represented in the figures. Y i

The fabric', whenprodnced with yarns colored in diiereutcolors, as described,'prcsents a very ornamental and beautiful appearance, and, besides, is a very strong fabric.

In making the above fabric, lemploy a knitting-loom, having one range-or set of hooked needles, each of which may be provided with a latch, as shown atf, in fig. 3, in which the hooked needle of such latch is exhibited at'g. v

With the needles, the snkers are to he employed, as usual.

Besides the needles and sinkers, the loom is to have two -heanis or rollers, h t', two guide-rollers, k Z, and two setsof eyed guides, m n, such guides beingextended'from twohorizontal bars, op. i

To prepare the machine for knitting tlyefabric, the ground or red'fand blueyarns are to be wound ontthe beam z. The white yarns are to be wound on the beamlt. l

Next, the blue and re'l yarns are to he run alternately through the guides m, that is, so that thereshall he i a blue yarn in one guide and a red yarn in the next one, the yarns being arranged in this order throughout the l series of guides m. Thus every two of the groundguides, m, vwill contain yarns'of -diii'erent colors, blue and red, one yarn of one'eolor being incone guide, and the other being in therother. Y l

When, however, the grouml-yarns are of nny di'crent color or colors, they are to he similarly arranged, it being understood that the upper guides, m, are to vreceive the groundynrns, of `whatever color or colors they may bc. The white yarns from the beam h, equal in number to the gronnd-yarns,.are to bcd'unthrough the gnidesvn, also Iequal in number to the guides m.

Loops of the ground-yarns :rire next to be formed on theneedles, and moved back on their shrinksV by `means of the sinkers. f

The upper bnr shoulfhnext lie moved a distance of two needles to the left, and next be moved upward, s0 as to cause-the yarns of its guides to pass up between the needles. Next, the said bar is to he moved to the right, over the needles, a distance of one needle. Next, it should he inoved downward, so as to form loops o n the needles. Nest, the sinkers should be moved, so as to more or cast the back loops olf the needles, and over,

the new loops thus made. These latter loops should next be moved back on the stems of the needles hy the sinkcrs. Next, the upper bar is to be moved to the right ndistance of two needles, and passed up, so as to cause its guides to rise between and above the needles.y Atthe saine time, the lower bar isl-to be moved upward,

so as to carry its yarns up between the needles. Next, the upper bar, o, should be moved to the left, and the other, p, should be moved to the right, each going a, distance of one needle. Next, both bars are to be brought down, so es to form loops. Next, the sinkers should be pub in operation, sogas to cast o' the back loops, and cast them over the loops last; formed. Thisompletes the operation, which, being lsuoeessively repeated, will cause the fabric to be formed. A

I claim the arrangement and combination of the series-of ground-yarns, a b c, and the series of stripeyarns, e e e, in the manner substantially as described, so asfto produce a. knifebric, on which the stripe-yarns will appear ou one side of the fabric, in right-line prallel ranges, :is set forth.

- GEORGE JE'LLEY'.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr. 

